Czeslaw Maczynski

Czeslaw Maczynski (9 July 1881-15 July 1935) was a Colonel in the Polish Army during the Polish-Soviet War. He served as commander-in-chief of the Polish military contingent during the Defense of Lwow in 1918-19, and he later became a politician of the Second Polish Republic.

Biography
Czeslaw Maczynski was born in Kaszyce, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary in 1881, and he reached the rank of Captain in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I,. In 1918, he joined the nascent Polish Army fighting for independence, and he organized the defense of Lemberg (Lviv) during the Polish-Ukrainian War. As a reward for his bravery, he was promoted to colonel, and Boleslaw Roja made him commander of Polish forces in Lwow and the surrounding county. However, his heroism was somewhat deflated after he did nothing to stop an anti-Semitic pogrom in Lwow, and he settled near Brzezany after the war's end and became a social activist. In 1922, he was elected to the Sejm as a member of the right-wing Christian Union of National Unity, and he was a target of local arsons. He died in 1935 at the age of 54.